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5 days ago · History. Williams began its inaugural football season in 1881 and its rivalry with Amherst College is one of the longest at any level of college football. Bates and Bowdoin have competed against each other athletically since the 1870s and subsequently share one of the ten oldest NCAA Division III football rivalries, in the United States, there is a long history of athletic competition between ...
- Andrea Savage (since 1999)
- Division III
- 27, men's: 13, women's: 14
- Hadley, Massachusetts
12 hours ago · Early life Gehrig was born June 19, 1903, at 1994 Second Avenue (according to his birth certificate) in the Yorkville neighborhood of Manhattan ; he weighed almost 14 pounds (6.4 kg) at birth. He was the second of four children of German immigrants Christina Foch (1881–1954) and Heinrich Gehrig (1867–1946). Christina was born in 1881 in Wiltser, Schleswig-Holstein, a province of pre-World ...
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5 days ago · All I know is Amherst has been my world for the past two decades and a final curtain is about to descend. My time here as a young person will soon be over, and maybe there isn’t some epiphany to be had, or some great discovery to happen upon, or one optimal version of myself to declare I’ve become. Maybe there’s some magic to be felt at ...
1 day ago · A Biography of America presents history not simply as a series of irrefutable facts to be memorized, but as a living narrative. Prominent historians — Donald L. Miller, Pauline Maier, Louis P. Masur, Waldo E. Martin, Jr., Douglas Brinkley, and Virginia Scharff — present America’s story as something that is best understood from a variety of perspectives.
2 days ago · Lynchburg is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. First settled in 1757 by ferry owner John Lynch, the city's population was 79,009 at the 2020 census, making Lynchburg the 11th most populous city in Virginia.
- 630 ft (192 m)
- John Lynch
- None (Independent city)
- Virginia
1 day ago · university, institution of higher education, usually comprising a college of liberal arts and sciences and graduate and professional schools and having the authority to confer degrees in various fields of study. A university differs from a college in that it is usually larger, has a broader curriculum, and offers graduate and professional ...
2 days ago · During its first two centuries the college was gradually liberated, first from clerical and later from political control, until in 1865 the university alumni began electing members of the governing board. During his long tenure as Harvard’s president (1869–1909), Charles W. Eliot made Harvard into an institution with national influence.
